February 13- Budapest liberated

Not a great day for making history and thus I'll be rather short today.

I'm not quite sure if N. will mention that on February 13, 1945 Budapest, the capital of Hungary was liberated by the Red Army after a long and hard battle, so I do it.
But otherwise?
One could report the death of Andronikos II Palaeologos in 1332 whose 46 years long reign is chiefly remembered for his hiring a band of Spanish mercenaries, the Catalan Company, which unhappy with working hours and payment, soon began to fight against their employers and terrorised what was left of the East-Roman Empire for a while. Quite understandably, that after all that Andronikos got rather disillusioned with running an Empire and retired to a monastery in 1328, having been succeeded by his grand-son.

Not a great day for the McDonalds . No, not the global purveyors of fine cuisine, but the homoymous Scottish clan. On February, 13 1692, 78 member's of the clan were massacred in Glencoe, Scotland by English troops under the command of a Campbell, a rival Highland clan, for not declaring loyalty to the new King William III of England, a members of the Dutch House of Orange, who had come to power in England after the �Glorious Revolution� of 1688.

In 1984 on this very day, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and his 13 months long reign as the leader of the Soviet Union is chiefly remembered for being mercifully short, and thus presenting Michail Gorbachev with the opportunity to come to power in March 1985.

Yet another massacre in 1991, when US � smart bombs� hit an underground shelter in Baghdad during the first Gulf War. The US Army had identified the facility as a military installation, but as so often in their dealings with the Iraq, intelligence was proved wrong, and the rockets hit a civilian bomb shelter anf killed 384 people.

Complete list of events:

Wikipedia

Edited by Komnenos

Soviet artillery in Pest, very near to the Danube

Buda after the siege